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Re: How did you GET your job(s)?
Being excited about whatever you are trying to take on, being organized, willing to learn & take risks, and serendipity. Who you know always matters because the more people you know, the more opportunities come. Recommended reading: The Tipping Point.
Warning: life for me is often a winding path, but I have been blessed.
For 2 of these jobs, I was the first female ever hired and got to experience being "the test case." It taught me tenacity.
High school newspaper editor =>majored in journalism program in college (applied) =>internship at CBS News (applied) =>made me question a lot about school =>unhappy with college/life/took leave=>weekend hike in the White Mts in NH=> job washing dishes at Appalachian Mt. Club (one of the best jobs breaks I ever had)(recruited)=> manager at Appalachian Mountain Club (recruited)=> hired at Mount Washington Observatory(applied) =>hired as NH Park Ranger(applied) => US Forest Service Ranger (applied) (all these required training as EMT for Mountain Search & Rescue)=>decided to go to nursing school (applied)=>National Health Service Corps and Commissioned Officer in Public Health Service (branch of military (recruited))=> stationed on various Native American Indian Reservations (went where they told me to)=>interest in public health=>honorable discharge=>graduate degree at Johns Hopkins in Public Health (applied/recruited)=>many years as research coordinator at Hopkins & Agency for International Development(first job applied, all the rest I was recruited) (during this time got married, had kids) =>took part-time school nurse job (applied) to spend more time with kids, & did consulting=>went to a school fundraiser as a taste tester and discovered I have the ability to describe tastes=>descriptive panelist for McCormick (recruited, just retired this month). Back to kids: son #1 joined FIRST team=>overly involved in FIRST=>Senior Mentor gig (recommended/applied)=>having a thousand more people in my life and I’ll bet that one of those people will help me move on to the next job when the time is right.
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